Another New Mexico Airport Regains Service

After nearly eight years, SkyWest and United will bring air service back to a small New Mexico city.

Joey Gerardi

Monday, January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM ET

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A United Express CRJ-200 arriving into Chicago O’Hare. [Credit: AirlineGeeks/ Joey Gerardi]

Key Takeaways:

Farmington, New Mexico, will regain commercial air service on May 8, 2025, after an eight-year hiatus, with SkyWest (United Express) offering daily flights to Denver using CRJ-200 aircraft.
The city secured $850,000 in federal grants and applied for state funding to support a $6.9 million "risk-sharing agreement" with SkyWest, guaranteeing service and revenue to the carrier only if passenger revenue falls below operating costs.
This return to service makes Farmington the fifth city in New Mexico to rejoin the air network, demonstrating a statewide trend of rural airports benefiting from state and federal grants to restore air connectivity.

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Farmington, New Mexico, a city in the state’s northwestern corner, will be regaining air service after nearly eight years. The last time the airport had regular flights was back in 2017 with Great Lakes Airlines, which ended service just five months before the airline collapsed entirely.

The city will be receiving $850,000 from the Department of Transportation’s Small Community Air Service Development Program (SCASDP), and it also applied for New Mexico’s Rural Air Service Enhancement grant, which provides $2.75 million to several rural airports across the state.